Happy Friendship Day 2016: Best Facebook and WhatsApp Status

Happy Friendship Day 2016, Get the Best Facebook and WhatsApp Status

Young people all around the world hold all the excitement when it comes the first Sunday of August. Now it’s time to make plans for upcoming friendship day once more. International Friendship day, which gained an enormous fame in recent years, is being celebrated in many countries. Happy Friendship Day which falls on first Sunday of every August. This year we celebrate Friendship Day on 5th August.

Friendship has been valued a lot since the humankind gets to civilize. No friendship is an accident, and on this day, you get all the privilege to take the process of socialization to a next level. There are many folktales and added mythological instances to state the significance of this day.

However, it’s all about celebration matters for social creatures. The tradition of dedicating a day for friends started in 1935 by US Congress. Within no time, the culture of celebrating friendship day took over the world and became International Friendship Day.

Though there is no clue for making this specific day as a Friendship day, it was also alleged to be a promotion by greeting card industry. Typical friendship day celebrations came with an idea of honouring relationships.

Meeting friends, exchange of greetings cards and friendship bands, gifts and flowers has been a part of traditional friendship day celebration. Back in 1997, fictional cartoon characters, Winnie-The-Pooh were declared as the brand Ambassador of International Friendship Day.

These days Friendship Day took a very commercial makeover, and greetings turned to a messages and status in social media. We provide you with a few of Friendship Day status messages to share it with your dear friends.